Science of Survival: Fighting Fire with Fire
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The Cost of Prescribed Burning
We've used fire to dramatically reshape our environment for as long as we've known how to make it. The last hundred years or so of aggressively putting out every fire that starts has been this odd departure from that history. We'll be back in two weeks with an in-depth look at how likely we are to start doing a lot more prescribed burning and possibly put an end to the wildfire problem in our lifetime.
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